Thursday, March 21, 2024 Messenger-Inquirer B3 FUNERALS POLICE REPORTS Charles, Lisa, 54, died Monday. Service: 2 p.m. Saturday at Kingdom Hall Witnesses, 2208 Tamarack Road, Owensboro. Visitation: 1 p.m. til service time.
Cheatman, Shirley, 81, died Monday. Service: 11 a.m. Friday at Muster Funeral Homes, Calhoun Chapel. Burial: Beulah General Baptist Cemetery in McLean County. Visitation: 4 to 7 p.m.
Thursday and 9 a.m. until service at the funeral home. Coburn, James Douglas 67, died Wednesday. Service: 1 p.m. Thursday at William L.
Danks Funeral Home in Beaver Dam. Visitation: 10 a.m. until the time of service at the funeral home. McGlothlin, Timothy, 65, died Saturday. Services: Noon Saturday at James H.
Davis Funeral Home Crematory. Visitation: 3 to 7 p.m. Friday and from 10 a.m. until the time of service Saturday at the funeral home. Mitchell, Robert, 80, died Saturday.
Service: 11 a.m. Friday at The Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church in Central City. Burial: West End Cemetery, Greenville. Visitation: 9 to 11 a.m. at the church Friday.
Rhoades, Anna, 86, died Monday. Service: 11 a.m. Thursday at Tucker Funeral Home in Central City. Burial follows in Rose Hill Cemetery. Vittitow, Thomas Lumpkin 77, died Wednesday.
Services: Noon Friday at James H. Davis Funeral Home Crematory. Visitation: 3-7 p.m. Thursday and from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Friday at the funeral home. The following list was compiled from reports to area law enforcement agencies: Owensboro Police Department Rebecca L. Miller, 26, no address listed, was charged Wednesday with theft of identity. Francis E. Wilkins 37, homeless, was charged Wednesday with theft by unlawful taking (auto) over $10,000.
A rape was reported Monday in the 200 block of Hall Street. Daviess County Office Adam G. Lungsford, 31, of Palm Bay, Florida, was charged Wednesday with driving under the influence. Zachary M. Sumner, 35, of the 1200 block of Venable Avenue was charged Wednesday with first-degree possession of a controlled substance (heroin), first-degree possession of a controlled substance (opiates) and driving under the influence.
Destiny Witt, 34, of the 1200 block of Venable Avenue was charged Wednesday with first-degree possession of a controlled substance (fentanyl). A motor vehicle plate was reported stolen Tuesday from a vehicle parked in the 2800 block of Turfway Drive. Two OMU transformers were damaged when the cooper wiring was removed Tuesday in the 1200 block of Ewing Road. Reports say the cost of replacing the damaged transformers is $44,690. Kentucky State Police Alexander S.
Lane, 22, of Hartford, was charged Wednesday with possession of a handgun by a convicted felon, first-degree wanton endangerment and first-degree police (motor vehicle). Gloria Cecilia Dean Hayden Adams Gloria Cecilia Dean Hayden Adams was born to the union of Lonnie Lee Hayden and Esther Marie Hunter. She was born and raised in the town of Owensboro, Kentucky on July 31, 1940. Glory graduated from Blessed Sacrament School and attended College at Brescia University in Owensboro, KY. She also attended Owensboro Vocational School.
She was united in holy matrimony to Benjamin Franklin Adams I on April 17, 1965, at Blessed Sacrament Chapel in Owensboro, KY. From this union she was blessed with a son. She accepted Christ as her Saviour at an early age, and served as a faithful member who truly loved the lord with Blessed Sacrament Chapel. Glory departed this life on Thursday, March 14, 2024. She leaves to cherish her memory her husband, Benjamin Franklin Adams and son, Benjamin Franklin Adams II, and his children; Tyler Adams, Brandi Adams, Brooklyn Adams, Benjamin Adams IV, Courtland Burroughs, Benjamin Adams III, Walter English, and Uriah English.
She is also survived by her sister Helen R. Smith, and many nieces, nephews, cousins, and other loving relatives and friends. Funeral Mass: Saturday, March 23, 2024, at St. Stephen Cathedral, 610 Locust Street, Owensboro, KY, at 10 a.m. Burial: Lewisport Cemetery Visitation: Friday, March 22, 2024, at McFarland Funeral Home, 1001 5th St, Owensboro, KY from 5 p.m.
to 7 p.m. Please leave memories and messages of condolence at www. mcfarlandfh.com Care by McFarland Funeral Home, Inc. Envelopes will be available at the funeral home for donations, in lieu of flowers, to the Gloria Adams memorial fund at Blessed Sacrament Chapel. Suzanne Marie Basham Suzanne Marie Basham, 67, of Owensboro, passed away March 18, 2024.
She was born May 24, 1956, in Daviess County, Kentucky to the late Elizabeth Ann Millay Basham and William Ralph Basham, Sr. Suzanne worked in housekeeping at Owensboro Health Regional Hospital and was a friend to everyone that she met there. Suzanne enjoyed watching movies, UK basketball, and spending time sitting on her back porch with her family. Along with her parents, Suzanne was preceded in death by her 2 brothers-in- law, Ronnie Osborne and Danny Durbin. She is survived by her brother, Wm.
Ralph (Judy) Basham; sisters, Donna Osborne and Barbara Durbin; nieces and nephews, Bill Basham, Tracey Black, Paige Pinson, Debbie Fulkerson, Crematory is both Craig Basham, Heather Hagan, and Wayne Durbin; to be entrusted with the several great-nieces and nephews; and many great- Marie Basham. Leave your great-nieces and nephews. messages of condolence Services will be at 2 p.m. for the family of Ms. on Saturday, March 23, 2024, at Haley McGinnis Funeral Home Crematory.
Burial to follow at St. Anthony Cemetery. Visitation will be from 10 a.m. until the time of service on Saturday at the funeral home. Expressions of sympathy may take the form of charitable donations made payable to Owensboro Health Foundation, 2211 Mayfair Avenue, Suite 403, Owensboro, Kentucky 42301.
Envelopes will be available at the funeral home. Haley McGinnis Funeral Home honored and privileged care of Suzanne Basham and sign her virtual guestbook at www. haleymcginnis.com. OBITUARIES BY JAMES MAYSE MESSENGER-INQUIRER The Owensboro Police Depar t- ment is investigating a Wednesday afternoon collision that killed a pedestrian on East Fourth Street. OPD repor ts say the incident occurred just after 3:30 p.m.
in the 2000 block of East Fourth Street. Reports say a caller told dispatch a pedestrian had been struck by a vehicle. No further description was included in the OPD release. Reports say the pedestrian, who has not yet been identified, was taken to Owensboro Health Region- al Hospital and pronounced dead. accident reconstruction unit was at the scene Wednesday afternoon.
James Mayse, 270-691-7303, Twitter: JamesMayse Pedestrian killed in Wednesday collision TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Thursday, March 21, the 81st day of 2024. There are 285 days left in the year. HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY: On March 21, 1965, civil rights demonstrators led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. began their third, successful march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
ON THIS DATE: In 1685, composer Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach, Germany. In 1935, Persia officially changed its name to Iran. In 1945, during World War II, Allied bombers began four days of raids over Germany. In 1952, the Moondog Coronation Ball, considered the first rock and roll concert, took place at Cleveland Arena. In 1972, the Supreme Court, in Dunn v.
Blumstein, ruled that states may not require at least a residency for voting eligibility. In 1990, Namibia became an independent nation as the former colony marked the end of 75 years of South African rule. In 1997, President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin wrapped up their summit in Helsinki, Finland, still deadlocked over NATO expansion, but able to agree on slashing nuclear weapons arsenals. In 2006, the social media website Twitter was established with the sending of the first by co-founder Jack Dorsey, who wrote: setting up my In 2007, former Vice President Al Gore made an emotional return to Congress as he pleaded with House and Senate committees to fight global warming; skeptical Republicans questioned the science behind his climate-change documentary, Inconvenient In 2012, meting out unprecedented punishment for a bounty system that targeted key opposing players, the NFL suspended New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton without pay for the coming season and indefinitely banned the former defensive coordinator; Commissioner Roger Goodell fined the Saints $500,000 and took away two draft picks. In 2013, in the Middle East, President Barack Obama insisted is as he prodded both Israelis and Palestinians to return to long-stalled negotiations with few, if any, pre-conditions.
In 2016, laying bare a half-century of tensions, President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro prodded each other over human rights and the longstanding U.S. economic embargo during an unprecedented joint news conference in Havana. In 2017, at his Senate confirmation hearing, Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch declared made no promises to President Donald Trump or anyone else about how he would vote on abortion or other issues. In 2019, President Donald Trump abruptly declared that the U.S. would recognize sovereignty over the disputed Golan Heights, a major shift in American policy.
In 2020, during a White House briefing, President Donald Trump doubled down on his support for the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a possible treatment for the coronavirus, while Dr. Anthony Fauci said the evidence was In 2022, a China Eastern Boeing 737- 800 with 132 people on board crashed in a mountainous area of southern China, setting off a forest fire visible from space in the worst air disaster in nearly a decade. (All 123 passengers and nine crew members would later be confirmed dead.) In 2023, Willis Reed, who dramatically emerged from the locker room minutes before Game 7 of the 1970 NBA Finals to spark the New York Knicks to their first championship and create one of most enduring examples of playing through pain, died at age 80. BIRTHDAYS: Actor Kathleen Widdoes is 85. Songwriter Chip Taylor is 84.
Folk- pop singer-musician Keith Potger (The Seekers) is 83. Actor Marie-Christine Barrault is 80. Singer-musician Rose Stone (Sly and the Family Stone) is 79. Actor Timothy Dalton is 78. Singer Ray Dorset (Mungo Jerry) is 78.
Rock singer-musician Roger Hodgson (Supertramp) is 74. Rock musician Conrad Lozano (Los Lobos) is 73. singer Russell Thompkins Jr. is 73. Comedy writer-performer Brad Hall is 66.
Actor Sabrina LeBeauf is 66. Actor Gary Oldman is 66. Actor Kassie Depaiva is 63. Actor Matthew Broderick is 62. Comedian-actor Rosie is 62.
Actor Cynthia Geary is 59. Hip-hop DJ Premier (Gang Starr) is 58. Rock musician Jonas Berggren (Ace of Base) is 57. Rock MC Maxim (Prodigy) is 57. Rock musician Andrew Copeland (Sister Hazel) is 56.
Actor Laura Allen is 50. Rapper- TV personality Kevin Federline is 46. Actor Sonequa Martin-Green (TV: Walking is 39. Actor Scott Eastwood is 38. Tennis player Karolina Pliskova is 32.
Actor Jasmin Savoy Brown is 30. Actor Forrest Wheeler is 20. The Miss Western Ken- tucky pageant has 12 differ- ent age groups for the com- petition which is divided into two different sessions. Ses- sion one includes the young- er age groups, six categories ranging in age from zero to 9-years-old, along with the group for special needs par- ticipants of all ages. Session two includes the older girls, including cate- gories for plus-sized contes- tants, sizes 14 and up, those that are married and over the age of 20, those that married and over the age of 20, along with the teen and miss groups.
The pageant is currently for girls and women only, but Wilson counting out male participants in the future. receive much interest for males at the moment, but not against adding male cate- gories if interest picks Wilson said. Contestants will walk the stage two different times one time to showcase theme wear, which Wilson said is a fun, summer outfit, and then a beauty gown or dress. beauty gown is what ever yone thinks of when they hear Wilson said. the big, frilly cup- cake-style Wilson said that the pag- structure is similar to the pageant so that contestants can learn from the Owensboro event, and take what learned to the state competition.
Prizes will be awarded for the Court, which includes a duch*ess, prin- cess and queen, in each cat- egory. Winners will receive births to the state pageant along with commemorative crowns and custom embroi- dered sashes. are also giving priz- es the Choice, the Most Photogenic and Wilson said. The Choice winner will be decided by a donation-themed contest. Community members will be able to vote for their win- ner by spending a dollar to receive a vote.
The contes- tant with the most votes will receive the Choice award. wanting to pro- mote community outreach, so all of the money collect- ed through the Choice award is going to go to the nonprofit organiza- tion, Jesus Wil- son said. Jesus Ministries is a non-profit organization founded by Wilson and her husband, Jordan. The orga- nization promotes messag- es from God to prisoners across the world. Through the nonprofit, a book writ- ten by Jordan called Drugs, The Only War Won by has been provided to prison- ers across the world.
The cover boasts that it has been donated to every jail and prison in the United States, and commercially available on Amazon. The pageant is also col- lecting donations of hygiene products to benefit the Friends of Sinners shelter. donations will help us determine who wins the Humanitarian award in each Wilson said. ilson said that she really wants to provide contestants with friendship and connections that can last a lifetime. like to say that not competing against each other, but competing togeth- she said.
To further emphasize the theme of family, the pageant is being organized by sis- ters. been great working with my sister to put on the Wilson said. together has really brought us closer a three-step pro- cess for entering the pag- eant which is detailed on the Facebook page at Miss Western Kentucky. Contestants will pay a $50 deposit to enter the pageant, complete the registration paperwork and then pay the balance of the registration fee before the day of the event. The cost to partici- pate is $85 for those who sign up before May 1, and $100 for anyone signing up between May 1 31.
also asking for a $10 entry fee, along with a photograph submission, to enter the Most Photogenic Wilson said. Each division will also be awarded prizes, a certificate and medal, for the best hair, best dressed, best personal- ity and a rising star award. had a great recep- tion so Wilson said. excited about allowing as many participants as pos- sible. Some pageants cap the contestants, but I want anyone interested to be able to participate and gain expe- rience from this Anyone with questions can reach out to the sisters via Facebook on the Miss Western Kentucky page or by sending an email to miss- like to say the expe- rience is more than just a crown.
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